“Tennis Elbow 71 Jenna Gribbon” Exhibition

The Journal Gallery (45 White St.)

[Image: Jenna Gribbon "The Artist Eroticized (Devan)" (2020) Oil on linen 48 x 36 in.]

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Your name
Jenna Gribbon

Your current location
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

Your favorite pastime
Making out with and/or talking to my girlfriend

Something you like
Kindness

Something you dislike
A bad day in the studio. Specifically having to wipe everything off a canvas after hours of struggle and leaving with nothing but a sore neck

Your defining characteristic
I’m observant

What would someone close to you say your defining characteristic is
I asked two close friends, and one said endless empathy and understanding, and the other said I make great salads.

Your favorite artist
Does anyone have a singular answer for this? Maybe Agnés Varda. But, in terms of painters, Manet, Karen Kilimnik, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Mary Cassatt, and maybe, at the moment, Eric Fischl, though he also repulses me

Favorite word or phrase
In a social situation when someone says, “Would you like a drink?”

What aspect of your work is most important to you
That someone can feel distinctly, maybe in a bodily way, my looking and also their own looking

Who do you admire the most and why
My ex-husband, because he’s unwavering in his integrity, generosity and kindness.

Your worst habits
Not deleting my emails, or maybe, picking at scabs.

The first thing you think of in the morning
Coffee

What have you always wanted to do and have not done
Buy an apartment

Your best decision
I wouldn’t change many of them because I like where I’ve ended up

Your worst decision
That time in high school, when I decided I could drive to my friend’s house before the LSD hit, but all’s well that ends well.

Your favorite street and why
The street I live on, because it’s where my home is, though when I lived in Athens, GA, there was a tree that owned itself at the end of my street. The person who owned the land willed it to the tree so it could never be cut down. That was pretty great.

What made you become the person you are
Being an artist, being Southern, being queer, public school, motherhood, etc.

Something that you treasure
The waning days of my son fitting in my lap

What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become
As a kid I wanted to be an artist, but I didn’t know it was a “job” a living person could have. I think I’d be pleased and impressed that we pulled all of this off

Your greatest fear
Tsunamis and right-wing militias